WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, pressed General Randall Reed, Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), on the Trump administration's failures in evacuating Americans from the Middle East at the start of President Trump's illegal war in Iran.
On February 28, the Trump administration launched an attack on Iran. Several days later the State Department issued an alert for U.S. citizens to "DEPART NOW" from over a dozen countries in the Middle East "due to serious safety risks." By the time the Department issued the evacuation order, much of the region's airspace was already fully or partia...